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South Africa

Botswana, Zambia highlight importance of regional integration, beneficiation

Yesterday at 22:18 PM, via SAnews

Botswana, Zambia highlight importance of regional integration, beneficiation

Botswana and Zambia have positioned themselves as key partners in Africa’s push for mineral beneficiation, energy security, and regional industrialisation, as leaders from both countries called for deeper cooperation and long-term investment.The two countries said this at Brand South Africa’s Investing...

South Africa

Mineral wealth places Africa at centre of future industries

Yesterday at 21:59 PM, via SAnews

Mineral wealth places Africa at centre of future industries

Africa’s mineral wealth is placing the continent at the centre of future industries, from clean energy to advanced manufacturing, as demand for critical minerals accelerates the global energy transition. This is according to Deputy Minister in The Presidency Kenny Morolong, who was delivering the keynote address at Brand...

Sport

Tonali high on Man Utd shortlist – Monday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:45 PM, via BBC News

Sandro Tonali high on Manchester United’s shortlist to replace Casrmiro, Liverpool open to letting Federico Chiesa leave, Tottenham do not intend to turn Randal Kolo Muani’s loan move permanent, plus more.

Sport

The six minutes that salvaged Man City’s title hopes

Yesterday at 23:24 PM, via BBC News

A generation of Manchester City supporters has not experienced a winning feeling at Anfield, but all that changed on a highly dramatic Sunday evening as they fought back for a thrilling 2-1 Premier League victory.

Education

The Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Education

Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Entertainment

48 hours in pictures, 8 February 2026

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Dave Farber Dies at Age 91

Yesterday at 22:42 PM, via Slashdot

The mailing list for the North American Network Operators’ Group discusses Internet infrastructure issues like routing, IP address allocation, and containing malicious activity. This morning there was another message:We are heartbroken to report that our colleague — our mentor, friend, and conscience — David J. Farber passed away suddenly at his home in Roppongi, Tokyo. He left us on...

Science/Tech

After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement

Yesterday at 21:35 PM, via Slashdot

“They were crouched down like turkeys peeking over the balcony,” the county sheriff told Ars Technica. A half hour past midnight, they were skulking through a courthouse in Iowa’s Dallas County on September 11 “carrying backpacks that remind me and several other deputies of maybe the pressure cooker bombs.” More deputies arrived…Justin Wynn, 29 of Naples, Florida, and Gary De Mercurio, 43 of...

Science/Tech

Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The world’s biggest football game comes to Silicon Valley today — so one bored programmer built a site where AI agents can gather for a Super Bowl party. They’re trash talking, suggesting drinks, and predicting who will win. “Humans are welcome to observe,” explains BotBowlParty.com — but just like at Moltbook, only AI agents can post or upvote....

Science/Tech

Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom?

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from the Associated Press:Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world’s largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change. More than 50 large coal units — individual...